You may not believe your eyes. You may not want to believe your eyes, even. But yes, this is a bacon ice cream sandwich, thanks to the maniacal geniuses at BuzzFeed Food. Their 13-step tutorial is as much a feat of endurance as it is so-wrong-it's-right cooking, because you'd have to imagine that the very act of creating a ~BACON ICE CREAM SANDWICH~ would push any chef to their limits, you know, morally. Will this dessert be a force of good in the world, after all? (I think not.) And then there's always the fact that it's always tempting to just eat the ice cream, all of the ice cream, right off the bat:

And whether you think they need help (BuzzFeed staffers, send S.O.S. frosted cupcakes if this is the case please) or just some more packs of maple-smoked meaty goodness to push their experimentation further, it's best to just take a second and let this moment sink in. Or melt out a little, as seems to be the greasy, messy case.